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Everything is fine except for the Itallians.

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How do people play solitaire with non-french suited cards?

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We don’t, or at least I have never tried it, but we have different card games for various types of cards, and we play these games more often than ‘normal’ card games. We also still have French playing cards for games like poker, blackjack, solitaire, and others, but they’re just not our main type of cards.

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Today i learned that what in romanian is called “black heart” is called spades or pikes in english

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Spades for English. Pike for French.

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We also use cupă for the red heart and pică (pike) for the black one.

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7 points

Curved. Swords.

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Oh God poor Italy, a nation torn apart not even able to see the same when it comes to playing cards. Truly a cursed people

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Wait until you see that every regione has their own drawings for the same suits

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I mean, up until the '50s they didn’t even speak the same language… every region had their own language (Italians call them “dialect”, but they’re in fact different langauges). Then television came and unified the language (standard Italian is just the dialect of Tuscany).

Italy is a very young country. Sure, the Ancient Romans unified the whole Europe, but Italy has only became a nation in 1861. Pretty young country if you ask me.

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I like the story of mid-1800s crowds shouting “viva L’Italia!” and half the crowd wondering “who is Talia? Garibaldi’s wife?”

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